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How did you know you know you made the right decision to leave your marriage

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Anewbooknotanewchapter · 15/07/2019 04:19

have posted about this before. One week in from when I asked my DH to leave. had a bloody awful week......caught off guard really given it was my decision. A lot of crying and extremely low points. Missed work most of the week. I have spent time thinking back to the good times in our r'ship. We rubbed along pretty well day to day and overall was a good person who supported me but it was when we were out and he had been drinking that he became an aggressive, at times nasty, verbally abusive arse. Have had a fair number of these episodes over the 9 years one of which was witnessed by a close friend who was very shocked. Got to the point where I became anxious and wary around him and on occasions a bit scared. These would happen on average one a month to every 6 weeks. Some episodes were much worse than others. So I find my self thinking could I have just coped with these for the sake of staying in the marriage as it was mostly ok. Have I been too hasty? I guess I had just reached a tipping point and said enough was enough after anther episode.

My question is in the days and weeks etc after how did you know you had made the right decision to end your marriage?

OP posts:
newmomof1 · 15/07/2019 04:30

I'd guess you're not scared anymore? You could go out for a drink without worrying about whether it'll all kick off?

You made the right call.

surlycurly · 15/07/2019 05:34

No one should live with the constant sense of worry and the consequent self analysis that goes with that. One morning you'll wake up without that sense of weight. You'll feel guilt about it when you realise, but eventually that will go too. Then you'll know you've don't the right thing; it's like being reborn!

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